Money, Finance and Risk

The group engages in the development of high quality research and knowledge exchange in the areas relating to money, finance and risk in the public, private and third-sector organisations. The objective is to support the advancement of knowledge to the academic communities; policy-makers, businesses and practitioners. Membership of the research group draws from accounting and economics. The research themes that the group explores include, but are not limited to:

corporate governance and accountability, including executive compensation and incentive plans; corporate reporting; corporate social responsibility; risk management; consequences of disclosure; the use of information by investors in making investment decisions
mergers and acquisitions
anagement accounting in modern operating environments, including SMEs and family owned firms; strategic finance leadership and the role of financial management in the public sector; institutionalisation of management accounting and management accounting change
monetary economics, including monetary policy; price and competition in the UK credit and card markets; efficiency of financial and betting markets; forecasting and prediction of markets; economics of gambling.